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canyonwalker) wrote2022-09-05 10:03 pm
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Heels Up Before Wheels Up
Pacific Northwest September Travelog #17
PDX Airport - Mon, 5 Sep 2022, 6pm
We wrapped up the last our our three-day weekend in southern Washington today after hiking Panther Falls and hiking a few falls at Beach Rock State Park. (Update: links added.) Around 2:30 we grabbed a late lunch at a drive-in burger stand in the 'burb of Washougal, WA and then drove to PDX to begin the airport shuffle.
The security shuffle (part of the airport shuffle) took longer than usual today. It looked like the TSA only had one luggage scanner open initially that was being shared by both Pre-Check and non-Pre passengers. The queue only crawled forward. At some point more scanner crews arrived and the line started moving much faster. I timed my time in line: 21 minutes. That's the worst I've ever measured in years of having Pre-Check.
Aside from the frustration of standing in line so long there was no harm done by the slow TSA. We walked down the hall to our gate at 4:45, two hours before our scheduled 6:45 departure. While Hawk headed straight toward the gate area I made a pit stop at the bar, where I made friends with two pints of beer for the next 60+ minutes. Heels up before wheels up!
Now it's just after 6pm, and I'm with Hawk at the gate. Our aircraft is at the gate, too, and the inbound passengers have disembarked. Things look good for an on-time departure. ...Of course, that's exactly how things looked at the start of this trip, right before we were dealt a 90+ minute delay! Let's hope that doesn't happen again.
PDX Airport - Mon, 5 Sep 2022, 6pm
We wrapped up the last our our three-day weekend in southern Washington today after hiking Panther Falls and hiking a few falls at Beach Rock State Park. (Update: links added.) Around 2:30 we grabbed a late lunch at a drive-in burger stand in the 'burb of Washougal, WA and then drove to PDX to begin the airport shuffle.
The security shuffle (part of the airport shuffle) took longer than usual today. It looked like the TSA only had one luggage scanner open initially that was being shared by both Pre-Check and non-Pre passengers. The queue only crawled forward. At some point more scanner crews arrived and the line started moving much faster. I timed my time in line: 21 minutes. That's the worst I've ever measured in years of having Pre-Check.
Aside from the frustration of standing in line so long there was no harm done by the slow TSA. We walked down the hall to our gate at 4:45, two hours before our scheduled 6:45 departure. While Hawk headed straight toward the gate area I made a pit stop at the bar, where I made friends with two pints of beer for the next 60+ minutes. Heels up before wheels up!
Now it's just after 6pm, and I'm with Hawk at the gate. Our aircraft is at the gate, too, and the inbound passengers have disembarked. Things look good for an on-time departure. ...Of course, that's exactly how things looked at the start of this trip, right before we were dealt a 90+ minute delay! Let's hope that doesn't happen again.